Oregon State University Women's Gymnastics

HONORS AS A COACH 2022 Pac-12 Conference Coach of the Year 2011 NACGC West Region Co-Coach of the Year (with Michael Chaplin) 2011 Pac-10 Conference Coach of the Year 2010 Pac-10 Conference Coach of the Year 2008 Pac-10 Conference Coach of the Year 2005 Pac-10 Conference Coach of the Year 1999 Pac-10 Conference Coach of the Year 2000, ’01, ’04, ’06, ’08 & ‘11 Oregon State Coach of the Year (Female Sports) HONORS AS A GYMNAST Six-time All-American at UCLA 1987 & 1989 Pac-10 Conference Gymnast of the Year 1987 & 1989 UCLA Athlete of the Year Three-time member of the U.S. National Team Competed in the 1983 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary Competed in the 1984 U.S. Olympic Trials USA GYMNASTICS Chair, USA Gymnastics Advisory Council (1996-98) Athlete Representative (1990-99) Tanya Chaplin enters her 29th season as the head gymnastics coach at Oregon State in 2026. She owns the most wins in program history, earning the distinction in the 2014 home opener with a 196.425-194.850 victory over Iowa State, giving her 318 wins, and surpassed 500 head-to-head victories in April 2025. During her time at OSU, she has become well-known as one of the best in the business for the choreography her gymnasts’ floor and beam routines putting her athletes in the best position to entertain the crowd as well as the judges. In year 28, the GymBeavs had a strong season that culminated in a program record for attendance and appearance at the NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional Final, posting a 197.050 on

Bea (pronounced Bay-uh) recently completed up her 17th season at Oregon State and 18th as the program’s Director of Operations. Among Bea’s responsibilities are assisting the coaching staff with coordinating team travel, hosts and coordinates judges’ travel for home events, hosting summer camp and organizes the team’s apparel needs. In addition, she organizes special events and fundraisers and is the program’s liaison with the 10.0 Booster Club. In 2006, Bea played a major role in hosting the NCAA Championships as well as the Pac-10 Championships. She has also assisted in hosting NCAA Regional Championships in 2008, ’11 and ’13 as well as the 2013 Pac-12 Championships. In 2005, Bea served as the volunteer coach concentrating her efforts on the balance beam. Bea competed for the Beavers from 1996-98 and again in 2000 after missing the 1999 season due to injury. The native of Romania was best known for her skills on the beam. In 2000, she tied her career-high of 9.875 on the event at the NCAA West Regional Championships to help earn the Beavers a trip to the NCAA Championships for the first time since 1996, when she was a freshman. A former Romanian junior national team member and national champion on bars, Bea moved to the United States as a teenager, living with another former Beaver gymnast Heather Justus’ family while training at the Oregon Gymnastics Academy. Bea graduated from Oregon State with a degree in exercise and sport science in 2000. Formerly Bea Tistu, she is mar

Brian Carey officially joined the Oregon State coaching staff in July of 2023. During his second full season in 2025, Carey’s vault squad was highlighted by consistency and adding skills, as multiple student-athletes upgraded their vaults this season. Karlie Chavez debuted a 1.5 on the road at Auburn and earned a career-best 9.900, while Kaitlin Garcia found a groove during the back half of the season, earning no lower than a 9.825 in six of the team’s final seven regular season meets, which included a career-best 9.925 at the Metroplex Challenge. For that success, Carey was named WCGA Region Six (West) Co-Assistant Coach of the Year alongside Michael Chaplin and Kaytianna Kell. Carey led Team USA to gold in the team all-around at the 2022 World Gymnastics Championships held in Liverpool, while the group captured six medals in the individual finals, including gold on vault and silver in the individual all-around, vault, bars and floor competitions. As an individual coach at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he helped propel Jade Carey to gold in the floor exercise, and was one of the coaches that assisted her on the way to another gold medal in the team final with Team USA in Paris in 2024, with the younger Carey also winning bronze in the vault final mere days later. At the 2019 World Championships in Stuggart, Germany, Carey led Jade to gold in the team all-around and silver on vault, while capturing silver on vault and floor at the 2017 World Championships held in Montreal, Canada.

Deb Graff recently completed her 25th season as the athletic trainer for the OSU gymnastics program. During her time at OSU, she also has worked with several other sports, including volleyball, men's golf and swimming as well as men's and women's rowing. Graff joined the Oregon State athletic training staff after working a year and a half as an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Miami (FL), where she worked with women's basketball, men's track and tennis. A graduate of Western Washington University, Graff received a Bachelor's of the Arts degree in exercise science in 1991. She worked as a student athletic trainer while in school and became certified by the National Athletic Trainers Association in 1991. From there, she attended graduate school at Syracuse University where she earned a Master's degree in exercise science in 1993. As a graduate assistant trainer at Syracuse, Graff was the athletic trainer for volleyball and field hockey. A native of Battle Ground, Wash., Graff graduated from Battle Ground High School where she was a member of the golf and basketball teams. Deb and her husband, Barney, have two sons, Mitchell and Jake.

Two-time Olympian and 2025 AAI Award winner Jade Carey joined the Oregon State coaching staff in August 2025, which came after the conclusion of an incredible collegiate career for the Beavs that included program records for event titles (168), perfect 10s (16) and the highest all-around score (39.925), which tied for fourth highest in NCAA history. A two-time Pac-12 Gymnast of the Year, Carey won Pac-12 Championships on floor (2023 and 2024), bars (2024), beam (2023) and in the all-around (2022 and 2023), finishing her career with 13 regular season All-American honors, 12 NCAA All-American honors and a perfect hit rate across 205 total routines. Carey was the 2024 NCAA Fayetteville Region Champion on beam, floor and in the all-around before winning Region Championships on all five events in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in 2025. In 2022, she finished fourth in the all-around at the NCAA Championships, along with a second-place finish on bars, while 2023 culminated in another silver medal, this time on bars. In 2024, Carey posted a 39.700 in the all-around to earn yet another silver medal on the biggest stage, also placing second on floor and third on beam, with a third-place finish on beam and fourth in the all-around in 2025. The list of accomplishments extends out to the international level, where Carey has won three Olympic medals with Team USA, including a pair of golds. She also won two gold medals with Team USA at the World Championships in 2022 (all-around and vault), adding a br

Jeff Macy serves as the Senior Associate Athletic Director for Health, Wellness, and Performance at Oregon State University, overseeing Sports Medicine, Strength and Conditioning, Nutrition, and Sport Psychology. He also serves as Sport Supervisor for Baseball, Cross Country and Track & Field, Men's Rowing, Women's Rowing, and Women's Soccer, and is a member of the Athletic Director's Executive Team, helping guide department-wide strategy, leadership, and policy development. Macy first joined Oregon State in 2006 as Head Strength and Conditioning Coach before spending five seasons as Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Milwaukee Bucks. He returned to OSU in 2013 as Director of Sports Performance and was later promoted to Associate Athletic Director. His career also includes stints with the Chicago Bulls and Bradley University. A 1993 graduate of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Macy also earned his MBA from Oregon State University in 2025. A former elite weightlifter, he captured two USA Weightlifting National Championships, was a four-year resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center, and placed 13th at the 1993 World Championships. Macy and his wife, Barb, have two children: son Will, an Oregon State graduate who works in education, and daughter Claire, a former college soccer player and graduate of Quincy University, who now serves as a graduate assistant strength coach at the University of Georgia.

Kaytianna Kell is in her fourth season on the Oregon State Gymnastics coaching staff in 2026. Kell’s floor lineup dominated in 2025, ranking as high as No. 7...

HONORS AS A COACH 2025 WCGA West Region Co-Assistant Coach of the Year 2011 NACGC West Region Co-Coach of the Year 2003 NACGC West Region Co-Assistant Coach of the Year 1999 NACGC West Region Co-Assistant Coach of the Year HONORS AS A GYMNAST Two-time All-American at UCLA Four-year member of the U.S. Senior National Team 1987 World Championship team alternate 1987 Pac-10 Champion – Still Rings Two-year member of the U.S. Junior National Team Associate head coach Michael Chaplin will enter his 29th season coaching at Oregon State in 2026; after spending his first seven seasons at OSU as an assistant coach, Chaplin was elevated to associate head coach prior to the 2005 season and currently coaches the Beaver bars lineup. OSU’s vaulters have had a wealth of success since his arrival. Chaplin coached the Beavers to some of their best-ever finishes on vault at the 2001 and 2007 NCAA Championships. On both occasions two Beavers earned first team All-America honors on the event. In 2001, Katrina Severin’s second-place finish on vault is the best ever by an Oregon State gymnast, while Lara Degenhardt’s sixth place finish is OSU’s fifth best performance. In 2007, Mandi Rodriguez vaulted to a fifth place finish while Tasha Smith finished 11th. Those performances marked only the second and third times OSU has had two first team All-American vaulters in the same season. In year 28, the GymBeavs had a strong season that culminated in a program record for attendance and appearance at the N